Chris Essay 7
10/28/09
Mr. Salsich
English

FINAL DRAFT

My biggest Fear:

Loneliness

(TS) Edmund Burke once said, “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear,” in my opinion fear is the most powerful emotion. (CM) Fear can make you do things that are irrational. (CM) It makes you do the first thing that comes to mind rather than let you think about it, and make the best decision. (CS) Fear is found everywhere, and within us all. The fear that is inside me is the fear of being alone. Fear can bring out mistakes, and irrational decisions, but these experiences make us all better people.

(TS) To me the absolute worst feeling is feeling alone, and this is my biggest fear. (SD) First of all, I love being around people, and parties are filled with people. (CM) I love going to parties, I feel comfortable and happy. (CM) Being surrounded by people and talking to them is a lot of fun. (SD) When I was younger I would often have very scary nightmares about being alone. (CM) In one, I would be in a field, alone, with no trees and no birds, and I would be running for miles, searching for an end to the field. An end I would never find. (CM) I would also dream that I was in a white abyss, endless white in all directions. (SD) I also do not enjoy being alone at home. (CM) If my parents leave and I am alone, I feel uncomfortable, insecure, and I wish they were there, so I could have someone to talk to. (CM) I also seldom spend the weekends alone, I am nearly always surrounded by friends. (SD) Being alone, with nothing to do, and no one to talk to, no sounds, nothing as far as you can see; to me, that is the scariest thing in the world.

(TS) Fear surrounds us, it is in every body’s minds, their imaginations, and it is lurking around every corner, waiting for its next victim. (SD) I have had many scary experiences in my life, but by far, getting lost at Six Flags was the scariest. (CM) I was seven years old, and I went with my parents to have a little fun. (CM) I went from happy, to very fearful in a matter of seconds. (SD) I was playing on a seamlessly harmless group of water slides when I suddenly found myself lost. (CM) I was having too much fun, I got a little distracted, and I realized I didn’t know where I was. (CM) I went down the slide smiling and happy, but as soon as I reached the bottom and realized I did not know where I was, and my smile quickly faded into a look of despair. (SD) When I came out the bottom I realized that the maze of crisscrossing slides had confused me, and I came out in an unfamiliar area. (CM) I panicked, ran around, searching through the mob of people for my parents. (CM) After a few minutes of this panicked behavior, I came to my senses, observed my surroundings, and eventually found my way back to my worried parents. (CS) Fear is always there, waiting to strike, and when it does it can cause you to panic.

(CS) When fear attacks it makes us do things that are irrational, but we must over power this fear, come to our senses, and react to our situation. (CM) If fear wins this battle, we may panic and make a bad decision. (CM) However, we can also fight hard to stay calm and collected, and win the battle, beating fear. (CS) Fear makes us panic, and when we are in this state, we can make bad decisions. When I panicked and started to run around, I realized that I only found myself more lost, I realized that fear was winning, so I calmed down and eventually found my way to my parents. If you are ever caught in this same situation, simply take a deep breath, relax, assess your situation, and you will defeat your greatest opponent: fear.